Word: badgering
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...home, the Kremlin is having its own persistent problems with Russia's dissident intellectuals, who continue to badger the regime to relax its tight control on free expression. Last week the latest and most daring demand for reform came from a prominent Soviet nuclear scientist, whose 10,000-word essay -entitled "Thoughts About Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom"-is being clandestinely circulated among a small circle of Russian writers, scientists and artists. In it, Andrei Sakharov, 47, demands nothing less in Communist Russia than an entirely free society enjoying complete intellectual liberty...
...Wisconsin, where last week a hard-core cadre of 300 New Hampshire veterans, many of them AWOL from classes, deplaned to begin organizing up to 25,000 fresh Midwestern volunteers pouring in from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa-not to mention a goodly number of the Badger State's 70,000-odd resident students. As in New Hampshire, few of the volunteers had any political experience, and one veteran said: "Some of their instruction will have to be given on the buses." Other cadres were at work in Nebraska, Indiana, South Dakota and Oregon. Chief among the organizers: Samuel...
...Durham bacon cake, caudle, flummery, ale jelly, Rissered haddie, Huntingdon fidget, Bucks bacon badger, star-gazey pie, slapjack, Bedfordshire clanger, Hindle wakes, bockings, jugged rabbit, Somerset rook pie, bog star, jellied eels, Burlington whimsey, pigs' pettitoes, Kingdom of Fife, limpet stovies, dressmaker tripe, Gooseberry Fool...
...CALLED THE SUGAR PLUM are one-acters marking the propitious off-Broadway debut of 28-year-old Israel Horovitz. Plum is an absurd love waltz between a boy and girl. Bronx boils up a cauldron of terror with the litter of abused humanity, as two street punks ridicule, badger, and finally knife to death a bewildered East Indian on his first day in New York City...
...acters marking the propitious off-Broadway debut of 28-year-old Israel Horovitz. Plum is an absurdist love waltz between a boy and a girl. Bronx boils up a cauldron of terror with the litter of abused humanity, as out of sheer desperate boredom, two street punks ridicule, badger, and finally knife to death a bewildered East Indian on his first day in New York City...